Hairpin



A. D. E. SESSIONS.

HAIRPIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1920.

1,371,399. Patented Mar. 15,1921.

INVENTORv By MM M I, A TTO NE W UNITED STATES ALFRED D. E. SESSIONS, OF RED WING, MINNESOTA.

HAIR/PIN.

Application filed March 26, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED D. E. SES- SIONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Red lVing, in the county of Goodhue and State of Minnesota,- have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hair pins and has as one of its objects to provide a wire hair pin which, when inserted into the hair will be retained in place and prevented from coming loose and permitting disarrangement of the hair.

Another object of the invention is to provide a hair pin which will, in use, so engage the hair as not to undesirably bunch the hair and which will be securely held against accidental displacement or loss and may yet at the same time be readily removed when required.

The invention further contemplates the provision of a wire hair pin comprising resilient legs which are normally spread apart and which, at the time of insertion of the pin in the hair are to be pressed together and after insertion released so that they will spread and thus become securely anchored in place and in this connection it is another object of the invention to so connect the legs of the pin as to give to the pin the required degree of resiliency so that the legs will be more or less forcibly spread apart when they are relieved of pressure.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the hair pin embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is an edge elevation thereof.

The hair pin embodying the present invention includes legs 1 and a connecting portion 2 and the pin is preferably formed from a single strand of resilient wire bent to the required shape. The legs 1 of the pin normally extend along diverging lines from the connecting portion 2 as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings and the said legs are each formed with a series of bends or convolutions 3 which series extend from a point adjacent the free extremity of the leg to the respective end of the connecting portion 2. The convolutions 3 form obtuse angles with one another throughout the series so that the bends of the convolutions are somewhat gradual although sufficiently pronounced to insure of the legs of the pin Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Serial No. 368,984.

being firmly anchored in the hair when the pm is in place.

As intimated above the series of convolu of the two legs extend along diverging lines which lines intersect the bends forming the convolutions 3. N.

The connecting portion 2 of, the pin is preferably in the form of an open loop in dicated by the numeral 5 and this loop is substantially of circular form and of each diameter as to possess the required degree of resiliency.

As will be observed by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings, the legs 1 and their convolutions 3 as well as their terminal portions 4, and the open loop 5 comprising the connecting portion 2, all occupy a common plane. When the pin is to be inserted into the hair, the legs 1 are pressed together so that they lie aproximately parallel or nearly meet, and the pin is then inserted and after insertion the legs are relieved of pressure. Due to the resiliency of the loop 5, the legs will be somewhat forcibly spread apart and will assume substantially their normal spread relation as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings and because of the presence of the convolutions 3 in the legs, the pin will become anchored in the hair and thus prevented from coming loose and permitting disarrangement of the hair.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A hair pin comprising normally spread legs and a resilient connecting portion, each of said legs being formed with a series of alternately oppositely directed relatively sharp bends, the series of bends in each leg being disposed flatwisein the plane of the pin and extending substantially from the connecting portion to a point spaced inwardly from the extremity of the respective leg, and the terminal portions of the legs between the terminal bends of the series and the leg extremities being disposd at such an angle that when the legs of the pin are brought together with their bends substantially in contact, the said terminal portions of the legs will lie parallel to each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALFRED D. E. SESSIONS. [L.S.] 

